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oldestking

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Registered: 2014-11-04

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bitmap fonts look ugly in terminal?

http://i.imgur.com/60oKumZ.png

The lemon font looks absolutely horrible, any idea's on how to fix it?

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2ManyDogs

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Re: bitmap fonts look ugly in terminal?

Try adjusting the letter spacing in your ~/.Xresources.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Urxvt#Font_spacing

Remember to reload .Xresources after you make the change, or nothing will happen.

Last edited by 2ManyDogs (2014-11-04 22:08:47)

oldestking

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Registered: 2014-11-04

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Re: bitmap fonts look ugly in terminal?

Try adjusting the letter spacing in your ~/.Xresources.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Urxvt#Font_spacing

Remember to reload .Xresources after you make the change, or nothing will happen.

That did fix it a lot, but, it still doesn't look the same. It's too "squarey" if that makes sense? Here's a comparison/

Mine:

What it's supposed to look like:

I had it working fine before, but now all of a sudden it just shit the bed

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oldestking

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Re: bitmap fonts look ugly in terminal?

Updated it with thumbnails at request of the mods.

jasonwryan

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Re: bitmap fonts look ugly in terminal?

Updated it with thumbnails at request of the mods.

You replaced them with exactly the same sized images. Read the link I posted, astonishingly, it includes information about the actual dimensions...

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